1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450042703321

Autore

Amato Joseph Anthony

Titolo

Rethinking home [[electronic resource] ] : a case for writing local history / / Joseph A. Amato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

1-59734-865-1

9786612762611

0-520-93633-7

1-282-76261-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

977.6/0072

Soggetti

Land settlement - Minnesota - Historiography

Local history - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Minnesota Civilization Historiography

Minnesota History, Local Philosophy

Marshall (Minn.) Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Concept and the Practitioners of Local History -- 1. A Place Called Home -- 2. Grasses, Waters, and Muskrats: A Region's Compasses -- 3. The Rule of Market and the Law of the Land -- 4. Writing History through the Senses: Sounds -- 5. Anger: Mapping the Emotional Landscape -- 6. The Clandestine -- 7. Madness -- 8. Madame Bovary and a Lilac Shirt: Literature and Local History -- 9. The Red Rock: Inventing Peoples and Towns -- 10. Business First and Always -- Conclusion: The Plight of the Local Historian -- Notes -- Acknowledgments and Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural historian and a prolific writer of local history to



explore such topics as the history of cleanliness, sound, anger, madness, the clandestine, and the environment in southwestern Minnesota. While dedicated to the unique experiences of a place, his lively work demonstrates that contemporary local history provides a vital link for understanding the relation between immediate experience and the metamorphosis of the world at large. In an era of encompassing forces and global sensibilities, Rethinking Home advocates the power of local history to revivify the individual, the concrete, and the particular. This singular book offers fresh perspectives, themes, and approaches for energizing local history at a time when the very notion of place is in jeopardy. Amato explains how local historians shape their work around objects we can touch and institutions we have directly experienced. For them, theory always gives way to facts. His vivid portraits of individual people, places, situations, and cases (which include murders, crop scams, and taking custody of the law) are joined to local illustrations of the use of environmental and ecological history. This book also puts local history in the service of contemporary history with the examination of recent demographic, social, and cultural transformations. Critical concluding chapters on politics and literature--especially Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Longfellow's Hiawatha--show how metaphor and myth invent, distort, and hold captive local towns, peoples, and places.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136138003321

Autore

Shenoy Aroon V. <1951->

Titolo

Convective flow and heat transfer from wavy surfaces : viscous fluids, porous media, and nanofluids / / Aroon Shenoy, Mikhail Sheremet, and Ioan Pop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Taylor & Francis, a CRC title, part of the Taylor & Francis imprint, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group, the academic division of T&F Informa, plc, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-315-35065-3

1-315-36763-7

1-4987-6099-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

621.402/2

Soggetti

Fluid mechanics

Fluids - Thermal properties

Heat - Convection

Surfaces (Technology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Governing equations -- 2. Steady natural and mixed convection flow in viscous fluids over wavy vertical wall -- 3. Steady natural convection flow in fluid-saturated porous media over wavy vertical wall -- 4. Natural convective flow of a viscous fluid in a wavy vertical channel -- 5. Forced convective flow in a wavy horizontal channel -- 6. Convective flow in a wavy tube -- 7. Natural convection flow saturated with nanoparticles in wavy-walled cavities -- 8. Natural convection flow saturated with nanoparticles in wavy-walled porous cavities.

Sommario/riassunto

Convective Flow and Heat Transfer from Wavy Surfaces: Viscous Fluids, Porous Media, and Nanofluids addresses the wavy irregular surfaces in heat transfer devices. Fluid flow and heat transfer studies from wavy surfaces have received attention, since they add complexity and require special mathematical techniques. This book considers the flow and heat transfer characteristics from wavy surfaces, providing an understanding



of convective behavioral changes.